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Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus

Pronounced 'chin-ta-saw-rus spine-oh-rine-us'

Artist: James Reece

Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus lived in lakes, probably in herds, around 80 million years ago.

Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus had:

a forward-pointing unicorn-like crest on its head which probably helped it to attract mates;
resonators in the tubular cavities inside its crest enabling it to produce distinctive mating calls;
a large tail and paddle-like forelegs to assist with swimming.

Tsintaosaurus was named after the city of Tsingtao in Shandong Province, where the fossil was found. The species name spinorhinus refers to the spine-like crest on its head.

Tsintaosaurus spinorhinos was a duck-bill dinosaur or hadrosaur. It is an ornithopod that belonged to the family Hadrosauridae known from the Late Cretaceous in North and South America, Europe and Asia.